Leeds Nature and Wildlife against Ecocide and environment destruction

30/01/2026

Undoubtedly, soil is an ecosystem which supports communities, habitats, and minerals, organic and inorganic matter, and solid particles on which microorganisms transform into useful products.
This in turn supports terrestrial life.
It is important to support, maintain, and properly manage and replace what we take, by adding organic matter and maintaining the plants growing within

28/06/2024

Soil organisms do 5 major things which are beneficial to all terrestrial life.
1, Microorganisms provide the means through their activities to mitigate and enhance the soils ability to prevent flooding. they do this by engineering pores by breaking up the soil and gluing them into clumps, or by digging /creating burrows. Both these practices enables aeration and water infiltration into the soil from the necessary organic matter horizons of the soil.
2,The Soils microorganisms cycle nutrients and minerals through their activities through soil. There is no need to disturb the soil surface. The only thing we need to do is add to the surface of the soil organic matter or just leave the organic matter there to do what it is supposed to do.
3. Soil because of this work done by microorganisms sustains life via the growth of plants and the food web which includes humans and other animals.
4. Microorganisms like some fungi,bacteria and amazing organisms such as, Myriapods, Acari, and Isopoda (the Onicidae) can mitigate and deal with pollutants given a long period of time. this means that nature is trying to help fix the mess human activity makes, however humans should stop polluting.
5. and finally microorganisms and plants within the soil provide stability and aggrigates to enable us to stand and not sink into the soil.

22/02/2024

Soil is a mixture of weathered parent material and organic matter in various stages of decomposition. Soil starts as mechanical and chemical weathered parent material (rock). Soil geology is native to the region. This is the start of the habitat we call soil and once cracks pits and grains through weathering processes, lichens and moss starts to take hold, this can take from a few years to several decades depending on the conditions of the climate.

22/02/2024

What is soil? This topic is very important as we cannot live without this ecosystem, it is essential we understand why it is important to preserve and rebuild soil health and the soils inhabitants.
I shall start with how soil it formed and how soil is essential in supporting life at all levels inside these terrestrial ecosystems.

17/02/2024

Soil a misunderstood and forgotten ecosystem at the base of all land based life. I shall be posting more on this on this page in the future.

17/02/2024

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/15/recycling-plastics-producers-report

The problems of plastics

Companies knew for decades recycling was not viable but promoted it regardless, Center for Climate Integrity study finds

16/06/2023

Soil in an important ecosystem, microorganisms such as Acari, Mariapoda, Isopoda engineer soil while bacteria and fungi further convert materials from the Oi and Oa Horizons of the soil.

06/12/2022

Happy World Soil Day! 🤎 🌱

26/09/2022

We face an urgent nature and climate crisis. The situation is dire, with more than one in ten species in England on the brink of extinction and the UK amongst the most nature-depleted countries in the world. To tackle this, we urgently need a coherent plan for nature’s recovery on land and at sea.

15/09/2022

“There are also lots of small things that people can do too. If you have a backyard, you can let it grow a bit; don’t cut the grass as much or rake the leaves as often. You can plant flowers and other plants that are attractive to native pollinators. You can lessen the amount you spray, and insects will bounce back quite quickly.” Learn more! https://orgcns.org/3pAPrFT

10/08/2022

Life Cycle of Ferns

08/08/2022

The functional role of ericoid mycorrhizal plants and fungi on carbon and nitrogen dynamics in forests https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.18307

Tansley review by Elisabeth B. Ward, Marlyse C. Duguid, Sara E. Kuebbing, James C. Lendemer and Mark A. Bradford